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BrunoC
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- Kiting since: 2013
- Local Beach: OBX
- Style: Freeride
- Gear: various
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Postby BrunoC » Tue Dec 13, 2016 10:38 pm
8m flite is awesome, run it with long lines and you will know why it is called Flite.
BTW: I fly 8&12 Flites with a 10m Razor in the middle for a different experience...very happy so far.
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randycasburn
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- Posts: 383
- Joined: Fri Jan 24, 2014 9:09 pm
- Kiting since: 0
- Local Beach: Lee Side, Ft. Walton Beach, FL
Destin Pass
Beasley Park
Big Sabine
- Favorite Beaches: Lee Side Park, Ft. Walton Beach
Beasley Park, Ft. Walton Beach
OBX Sound side
Kailua, Oahu
Kahanamoku Beach Honolulu, Oahu
- Gear: Ocean Rodeo Flitt 17
Ocean Rodeo Flite 12
Ocean Rodeo Flite 8
Ocean Rodeo Maco 140
Progressive Phish 146
Ocean Rodeo Origin Light 159
Ocean Rodeo Duke
- Brand Affiliation: Ocean Rodeo
Postby randycasburn » Tue Dec 13, 2016 10:58 pm
BrunoC wrote:8m flite is awesome, run it with long lines and you will know why it is called Flite.
BTW: I fly 8&12 Flites with a 10m Razor in the middle for a different experience...very happy so far.
Looping the Razor the other day almost broke a rib. It flagged me out like a rag doll and freaked me out (so I didn’t finish the loop). Love the kite…but it spanks my butt a lot!

The FLite has less pull thorugh the loop and that’s fine with me!
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Regis-de-giens
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- Posts: 654
- Joined: Thu Jul 31, 2014 2:58 pm
- Kiting since: 2002
- Local Beach: France: St Laurent du Var, Cannes, Almanarre
- Style: 62 kg , light wind
- Gear: Conceptair pulsion 15&12, Elf 11 &7, OR Flite 10m , Airush One 9&6, Rally 6&4.
foil Ketos, Zone, OR mako, snowskis, kite-boat
- Brand Affiliation: None
Postby Regis-de-giens » Sun Jun 18, 2017 12:54 pm
I bought one v4 10m some weeks ago ! mainly for hydrofoil application but also TT.
I just tested it today in irregular 12-25 knots on a small TT and 26m lines. I was sometine a bit overpowered with my 62kg, and sometimes hard to stay upwind, just to describe the ride conditions.
Kite is exactly what I like, fit perfectly to my needs , stable and confortable. Bar pressure is rather light which I like. well stable. Loop is powerful, not so tight as my champion Airush One on this exercise , but really sufficient and generate far more pull.during the loop than the One or the Rally.
The kite need some work when speed is very low, but then the kite accelerate really good. Hangtime is excellent . Absolutelly no stange behaviours, loved it, probably my prefered LEI today.
Now I need to test on hydrofoil in 7-14 knots to see how it behaves in lighter wind and the high speed of hydrofoil .
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SparD
- Medium Poster
- Posts: 193
- Joined: Tue Jul 02, 2013 9:47 pm
- Kiting since: 2011
- Local Beach: Almanarre
- Gear: Elf Joker 5 15 and 18m²
Ozone Chrono 12m²
Elf Joker 7 8m²
Ocean Rodeo Flite Gen5 8, 10 and 12m²
Ocean Rodeo Prodigy Gen4 5m² and 7m²
Airush DNA 2015 4m²
Slingshot Z 2016 3m²
Moses Comet 111
Spotz Tuna
RSC Supreme 2011 133x39.5
Old beatup surfboards
- Location: Hyères, France
Postby SparD » Tue Jun 20, 2017 9:14 am
Regis-de-giens wrote: ↑Sun Jun 18, 2017 12:54 pm
I bought one v4 10m some weeks ago ! mainly for hydrofoil application but also TT.
I just tested it today in irregular 12-25 knots on a small TT and 26m lines. I was sometine a bit overpowered with my 62kg, and sometimes hard to stay upwind, just to describe the ride conditions.
Kite is exactly what I like, fit perfectly to my needs , stable and confortable. Bar pressure is rather light which I like. well stable. Loop is powerful, not so tight as my champion Airush One on this exercise , but really sufficient and generate far more pull.during the loop than the One or the Rally.
The kite need some work when speed is very low, but then the kite accelerate really good. Hangtime is excellent . Absolutelly no stange behaviours, loved it, probably my prefered LEI today.
Now I need to test on hydrofoil in 7-14 knots to see how it behaves in lighter wind and the high speed of hydrofoil .
Glad you like it Régis

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Regis-de-giens
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- Posts: 654
- Joined: Thu Jul 31, 2014 2:58 pm
- Kiting since: 2002
- Local Beach: France: St Laurent du Var, Cannes, Almanarre
- Style: 62 kg , light wind
- Gear: Conceptair pulsion 15&12, Elf 11 &7, OR Flite 10m , Airush One 9&6, Rally 6&4.
foil Ketos, Zone, OR mako, snowskis, kite-boat
- Brand Affiliation: None
Postby Regis-de-giens » Tue Jun 20, 2017 11:01 am
You can even say "love" ; and that is thanks to your reports SparD and your agreement to have put it on a scale and report the measured weight. Thanks for that.
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kitesmite
- Rare Poster
- Posts: 1
- Joined: Mon Apr 10, 2017 7:59 pm
- Kiting since: 2002
- Local Beach: Utrecht
- Gear: Ocean Rodeo Flite 14.5 and 10 2015
Liquid Force Envy 8 2013
Cabrinha Ace 139 2015
Naish Drive 142 2017
- Brand Affiliation: None
Postby kitesmite » Wed Dec 06, 2017 8:31 pm
All Flites are sold out in Europe, even second hand they are hard to get. Please expand your dealership in Europe OR.
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